The race is on. It's the bottom of the ninth. The bases are loaded. Your English final is on first, algebra's on second and Spanish is on third. If you have enough java to keep you up all night, you can hit a homer by turning in your last political science essay on time.
The last week of the semester is as tedious and as stressful as a major-league baseball game: stressful in the physical sense of the game, running as fast as you can, putting everything you have into your swing to knock the ball out of the park; tedious in that the semester seems to drag on and on, week after week, as you guzzle down coffee or put away pounds of peanuts to give you momentum to keep going until it's all over.
The last week of every semester is difficult, but the last week of the spring semester is extremely trying. As students try to concentrate on the stimulating quadratic equations, they can't help but stare outside, where bright sun rays shoot into the classroom windows, mocking them as they sit in cold, rooms wearing over their sun-deprived bodies.
But just as the players in the game must never give up, students must never lose focus. In the last week of classes, the easy thing to do is to slack off and hit the beach early. But it might help to think back to the first week of school and try to revert back to the motivation and determination felt by many students at the beginning of the semester.
As the saying goes, "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings," or, in this case, until the last bell rings. Until then, students must keep attending classes, turning in assignments and studying for tests, just as we at The Daily Cougar must not let the end of the semester's approach keep us from continuing to develop serious, thought-provoking editorial topics such as this one.